Word: authorative
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Professor Hill will lecture to the students of English A on Tuesdays for the remaining half-year. The next eight lectures will be as follows: one on Dryden, two on Pope, one on Swift, two on Addison and Steele, and one on Defoe. A few facts about each author will be put on the board and notice of the prescribed reading will be given. Students are expected to do the required reading before the lectures...
...Story of Thorgeir the Unlucky" are contributed by R. W. Herrick and H. Bates, respectively. The former tells of the ambitions and disappointments of Eben Williams and the "schoolmarm." The scene of the latter is laid in Iceland. It is written in the old English style, which the author has been particularly happy in catching. The description of the combat is rather improbable, but the story as a whole has great literary merit...
...North American Review for February has a varied and unusually attractive table of contents. Such extremes of moral outlook as Ouida's and Gail Hamilton's are here, although separated from each other by the chief bulk of the number. The Gladstone-Blaine controversy by Representative Mills, author of the Tariff Reduction bill is the leading article. It is in continuation of the Gladstone-Blaine duel in the January number, where those two advocates of opposing theories flourished their steels simultaneously and by mutual agreement. Mr. Mills tersely, and with sledge-hammer vigor, answers Mr. Blaine, arguing that protection leads...
...interspersed with quotations from the poet's idyll of the Moselle. General Francis A. Walker's contribution, entitled "Mr. Bellamy and the New Nationalist Party," is a serious paper exposing some fallacies of Mr. Bellamy. It is keen, critical, and impartial, and makes some telling points against the author of "Looking Backward...
...Japanese parliament, gives a clear outline of the Japanese Constitution of February 1889. The three serials are continued. Mrs. Deland's "Sidney" gives us the fourth, fifth and sixth chapters. The story steadily develops in interest and the strong scene with which this installment closes is in the author's best manner. There are as usual a number of editorials, the one on Browning being rather a conservative criticism, and the recent work of Harris Taylor on the English Constitution is reviewed at length...